The World Underwater Image Festival in Marseille (France) is one of the most famous underwater photo and video contests in the world. Winning images are always stunning – expecially in the “Portfolio” category, where you have to present a set of 10 images, so you justcan’t be only lucky. However, expecially in recent years, I’m starting believing if (sometimes) something wrong happens. A couple of example of winnig images thi year (2009):
Both images are really amazing. In the B/W photo, I expecially like the use of the light (behind the subject). The leopard seal caching the penguin also, really a great shot!
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- Plongeur d’Argent – Colour
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- Plongeur d’Or – Black and White
But, as always, I’d like to know “how”! Good the light of the blenny, but how does he focus the light in the blenny eye? And the penguin.. maybe was already dead.. wasn’t it?
Anyway, very good shots. But, in this kind of high-level competitions, I think it would be useful to add some more informations about the photographic technique, and maybe (joint with the definitive image) also the RAW file. Just in case…
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